Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15 Vol.14: Index           All Writings Vol.1: Autobiog. Vol.2: 1860-1889 Vol.3: 1889-1895 Vol.4: 1895-1898 Vol.5: 1899-1900 Vol.6: 1901-1902 Vol.7: 1903-1904 Vol.8: 1904-1906 Vol.9: 1906-1908 Vol.10: 1909-11 Vol.11: 1911-12 Vol.12: 1912-14 Vol.13: 1914-15
Volume 1: Autobiographical Writings Volume 2: 1860-1889 Volume 3: 1889-1895 Volume 4: 1895-1898 Volume 5: 1899-1900 Volume 6: 1901-1902 Volume 7: 1903-1904 Volume 8: 1904-1906 Volume 9: 1906-8 Volume 10: 1909-11 Volume 11: 1911-12 Volume 12: 1912-14 Volume 13: 1914-15 Volume 14: Cumulative Index   BTWP Vol.11 Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-vi Contents, pp. vii-xviii Introduction, pp. xix-xxii Symbols and Abbreviations, pp. xxiii-xxiv Documents, 1911-12, pp. 1-2 Mar. 1911, pp. 3-73 Apr. 1911, pp. 73-119 May 1911, pp. 119-176 June 1911, pp. 177-248 July 1911, pp. 248-288 Aug. 1911, pp. 288-299 Sept. 1911, pp. 299-320 Oct. 1911, pp. 320-353 Nov. 1911, pp. 353-379 Dec. 1911, pp. 379-449 Jan. 1912, pp. 449-460 Feb. 1912, pp. 461-481 Mar. 1912, pp. 482-509 Apr. 1912, pp. 509-531 May 1912, pp. 531-547 June 1912, pp. 548-555 July 1912, pp. 555-569 Aug. 1912, pp. 569-588 Bibliography, pp. 589-590 The page presentation framework of the Booker T. Washington papers is designed to provide researchers worldwide with searchable access to the thousands of pages comprising the fourteen volumes, most of which are out of print. Adapted from the National Academy Press's Open Book framework, this framework allows searching down to the page level, provides sorting of search results chronologically, enables easy navigation across multiple volumes, and allows page-by-page local printing (via PDF) of every page.

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers within the next few days regarding the plans for the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Freedom of the Negro. I hope the President will not commit himself in this regard before I can have a chance to have a conference with him, or you. In order to refresh the memories of yourself and the President regarding this matter, I enclose to you paragraphs from the President's messages during the two last Congresses. These paragraphs were put in at my suggestion. I think it possible that Mr. Lawson's people and myself cart work together harmoniously' but I think it would be mixing matters just a little if the President were to commit himself to Mr. Lawson before I have had time to see him or communicate with him. Yours very may, Booker T. Washington TLS William Howard Taft Papers DLC. Papers, DLC. A press copy is in Con. 53, BT\V To George Ruin Bridgeforth Tuskegee Institute, Alabama May fist, 1 ~ Mr. Bridgeforth: Enclosed I send you a copy of the report made by the committee which was appointed to investigate the whole matter clef the use and disposition of the manure. You will find that according to this report that you are not complying in any large degree with the orders which were given you. Failure to respect the orders of the school in a matter like this strikes at the foundation of our success. It is impossible for us to succeed as a school, or for any department to succeed where the head fails to recognize and respect authority. I should not speak so frankly and plainly in this matter if this were the first case. In this special instance I not only had several of our best teachers spend a lot of time in getting up the data and in investigating the matter, but you will remember that Mr. Logan, Mr. J. H. Washington and others together with yourself spent a lot of time considering the report, and we finally got in shape an order which you said was satisfactory and the order was duly issued. Now you can imagine what ~20